All items tagged with voice recognition and speech to text (12)

Sensory Unveils Automotive AI Platform at CES 2024

January 9, 2024 by Joao Martins

Sensory Unveils Automotive AI Platform at CES 2024

Sensory, the Californian company at the forefront of voice recognition is now set to capture the automotive industry's attention with the introduction of its state-of-the-art AI automotive platform. For CES 2024, Sensory is promoting a new embedded AI solution, combining advanced voice and vision technologies, that the company promises will not only redefine driving safety but will also revolutionize user-vehicle interaction and set a new standard in automotive technology.

Dolphin Design Unveils Innovative IP for Sound Classification Reducing Power Requirements by 99%

June 27, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Dolphin Design Unveils Innovative IP for Sound Classification Reducing Power Requirements by 99%

Dolphin Design, a semiconductor designer of power management, audio, and processing devices with in-house ASIC design services, announced the launch of WhisperExtractor, a mixed-signal technology for voice and audio-enabled SoCs, enabling voice and sound classification at a record µW level power budget. The new technology paves the way to breakthrough always-on voice user interface, real time speech-to-text, and always-on sound detection.

Picovoice Adds Voice AI SDKs for Italian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese Languages

July 19, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Picovoice Adds Voice AI SDKs for Italian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese Languages

Picovoice remains committed to becoming the developer-first voice AI platform for adding voice to anything. The introduction of its Free Tier service provided more than 10,000 developers with state-of-the-art voice recognition. The launch of Speech-to-Text engines has made Picovoice the first and only ubiquitous end-to-end edge voice AI platform. Now, Picovoice introduced voice AI SDKs for Italian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese. Now developers can train branded wake words and custom voice commands in eight languages.

July 4, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Mycroft Ai Launches Mimic 3 Text-to-Speech Software for Voice Assistants

Mycroft AI, the startup company from Kansas City, MO that created a privacy-driven, open-source voice interface technology platform, announced the release of its latest text-to-speech (TTS) engine, Mimic 3. The open-source and fully customizable neural TTS software was designed to provide a natural sounding voice, with over two dozen languages and more than 100 different voice sets. It can run completely offline on low-end systems, including Raspberry Pi 4.

Picovoice Announces Speech-to-Text 2.0: Better, Faster, Stronger

March 9, 2022 by Joao Martins

Picovoice Announces Speech-to-Text 2.0: Better, Faster, Stronger

Picovoice announced a new speech-to-text engine that they believe will be able to disrupt the $30B transcription market. The young Canadian company focused earlier on its own wake word (Porcupine), speech-to-text, and speech-to-intent engines. To prove its latest Speech-to-Text solution, Picovoice is offering 100 hours of free transcription per month to showcase that cloud-level accuracy can be achieved without sacrificing privacy, reliability, and affordability.

Sensory Introduces SensoryCloud.ai Cloud-Based Voice and Vision AI Services

January 5, 2022 by Cristina Costa

Sensory Introduces SensoryCloud.ai Cloud-Based Voice and Vision AI Services

Sensory, the Silicon Valley innovator of machine learning solutions for speech recognition and biometric identification, currently leading in edge AI voice implementation efforts is now extending its reach to the cloud. With its new SensoryCloud.ai platform, the company is offering a hybrid edge and cloud solution that puts brands and manufacturers in control of their AI deployments. Sensory will be providing demos of SensoryCloud AI services at CES 2022.

Speechmatics Releases Breakthrough Autonomous Speech Recognition Software Able to Understand All Voices

October 27, 2021 by Joao Martins

Speechmatics Releases Breakthrough Autonomous Speech Recognition Software Able to Understand All Voices

Speechmatics, a leading British company in deep learning and speech recognition technology, has launched its ‘Autonomous Speech Recognition’ software. Using the latest techniques in deep learning and with the introduction of new breakthrough self-supervised models, Speechmatics claims to outperform Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft in accuracy and ability to understand all voices.

Microsoft Acquires Voice Recognition Pioneer Nuance Communications

April 12, 2021 by Joao Martins

Microsoft Acquires Voice Recognition Pioneer Nuance Communications

As rumored, Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Nuance Communications, the speech-to-text and voice recognition pioneer, for US$19.7 billion - the second-largest acquisition in Microsoft’s history. Microsoft apparently recognized the value of Nuance's efforts in healthcare, financial services, telco, retail, travel, and government applications, and recent investments in conversational AI. How will Microsoft leverage the company's products and technologies is certainly more related to his efforts in those very same verticals and synergy with its Office and Business software suites, than any effort to revive Cortana.

Picovoice Announces Voice Interfaces on the Edge With German Language Support and Plans to Go Multilingual

February 11, 2021 by Joao Martins

Picovoice Announces Voice Interfaces on the Edge With German Language Support and Plans to Go Multilingual

Picovoice, a young company developing voice AI on the edge with on-device speech recognition and natural language understanding software, announced a new SDK for German language. The company allows developers to create and fully test voice experiences directly on its recently launched Picovoice Console platform, before exporting models that can run on-device with minimal latency. Picovoice also announced plans to release SDKs for French, Spanish, and Japanese.

Expanding Horizons in Audio and Voice

September 28, 2017 by Joao Martins

Expanding Horizons in Audio and Voice

It's been an interesting week! Just prior to the IBC 2017 show, Apple made its traditional event for the launch of the new iPhone 8 and iPhone X (and those Augmented Reality demos were amazing!), also debuting the new Apple TV 4K. And before Samsung and all the other Smartphone manufacturers start announcing their own versions of "X" models, we had a series of interesting corporate and technology announcements, culminating by Amazon's announcement of a series of new Alexa-based hardware devices...

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